Sentences with phrase «risk of false positive results»

Does the risk of false positive results outweigh the benefit of preventing a small number of deaths from breast cancer?

If a kitten is under 16 weeks of age and tests positive for FeLV, a re-test is recommended 3 - 4 weeks later due to the increased risk of a false positive result in young kittens.

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Specifically, the task force says the «harms and costs of false - positive results, over diagnosis and overtreatment» outweigh any «significant reductions in the relative risk of death from breast cancer.»

Used in conjunction with mammography, imaging based on nuclear medicine is currently being used as a successful secondary screening alongside mammography to reduce the number of false positive results in women with dense breasts and at higher risk for developing breast cancer.

(Scientists can increase the technique's sensitivity, but that raises the risk of false - positive results.)

After adjusting for common factors that influence breast cancer risk, Henderson and colleagues found that women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive who were referred for additional imaging had a 39 percent increased chance of developing subsequent breast cancer during the 10 - year follow - up period, compared with women with a true - negative result.

«Our finding that breast cancer risk remains elevated up to 10 years after the false - positive result suggests that the radiologist observed suspicious findings on mammograms that are a marker of future cancer risk,» said the study's lead author, Louise M. Henderson, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and an assistant professor of radiology at the UNC School of Medicine.

Women with denser breasts tend to be younger, healthier women, which means healthier women are actually at an increased risk of getting a false result — either a false positive or false negative.

In healthy, low - risk populations FIV is quite uncommon, and this leads to an increase in the relative number of false positive results.

Plus, another unique feature is that property height (in relation to flood risk) is included within the automated risk model resulting in fewer «false positives» and a more accurate assessment of genuine risk.